Bluebird Chic Camera Strap Review and Giveaway *CLOSED*

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Hey everyone!!

Leah of Bluebird Chic (Affiliate link) and I have been online friends for quite some time. That lady, let me tell you, is so creative and talented and she works non stop. I'm so proud to see her business growing by leaps and bounds over the years. I have been using one of her camera straps for a while now, so when she invited me to be one of her Brand Ambassadors, of course I jumped at the chance!

As ambassador, Leah let me pick one strap for myself, give one away and offer you a discount code. How sweet is that deal? :) It took me a while to decide, but really, that was just me big fickle. I already know I wanted 'Skip To My Lou' the first time I laid eyes on it. It has triangles! Sasha + triangles = always a good pairing :) It is also red in color, which is perfect because my clothes are black + grey + jeans, most of the time. I love that pop of red against my very basic fashion choices. 

Beside being oh so pretty, I need the strap to help relief some pressure on my neck. Hello tofu neck. I absolutely cannot use the strap that came with my camera, I have to have some sort of padding on my strap at all times. I was doing fine with my old Bluebird Chic Rainbow Chevron strap, really.

Then this new scarf camera strap arrived in my mailbox. 

Oh.Em.Gee!!

It's so soft and comfortable like you wouldn't believe! I tried it both ways and it works like magic. I can't even feel the weight of my camera anymore. When worn across my body, the camera is so stable that I do not worry about it swinging out and hitting anything next to me when I move.

      

I tried having Neha take my photos, y'know, instead of a mirror selfie, but I didn't like the quality of the phone photos as much as I love these. And I really love taking photos of myself, haha!

How do you like my new camera strap? 

Gorgeous eh? :)

As I said earlier, Leah is letting me offer you a generous 20% off any strap of your choice. 

Code : SASHAfarina (valid from June 29th until July 13th 2015)

Do you want a chance to win a strap of your own?

Between June 29th to July 6th, just visit BlueBird Chic to choose your favorite, then come back here and post it in the comment section. Comment is moderated (I hate spammers), and I will close the comment section before I choose the winner randomly. As long as you're able to leave a comment, you're in. :) This post will be edited to announce the winner shortly after I close the comment.

Good luck and I'll see you soon!

xoxo

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HK Disney

A new sketch is up on the October Afternoon blog! I'm sharing my sketch and layout here, then you can hop over there to see Jill's fabulous layout :)

How's your summer coming along? The girls and I have the whole month of June off school and work. A month sounded like forever when we discussed it in May, but now, we're already in the last week of our holiday! Time flies when you're having fun they say? So true!   

I used that bold B side of Fresh Fruit PP as a background and cut apart my white cardstock before stitching them back together on top of it. I've done this before and will be doing this again for sure. I love how you can see bits and pieces of the background paper through the gaps. 

I finished my layout with some a variety of embellishments from Summertime, an old brad from Travel Girl collection, an arrow chipboard and of course, a sprinkling of colors all over my layout. 

I hope you will give this sketch a spin!

Happy scrapping!

Sweet Boy

Sometime I have the urge to go simple. No ink splatters, minimal layering. Just photo and paper. Rare, but it happens and when it does, I'm grateful for digital elements. They make it so easy to scrap simple pages!

For this layout, I built it from one of the Week In The Life 6x8 Layered Templates. I added 'sweet boy' brush in white with yellow 'stroke', a piece of digital sticker from Little Things Kit, my nephew's name and age and the date. The whole layered template was printed on photo paper. Once printed, I trimmed it a little bit larger so it's the same width as my background.

I can't resist paper and embellishments, so I added a little heart from A Flair For Buttons, a punched out little banner from my OA scraps, and I mounted everything onto that gorgeous Moaning Cavern pp, also from October Afternoon.

This sweet boy is growing like a weed right now and oh so smiley. We can't get enough of him! :)

Little Things

Nidhi took this photo of my nephew on the first day of my sister's wedding last March and I just had to scrap it! :) I mean, how could you resist those folds? And the fact that he has changed so much since then, only make me treasure this shot more than ever. 

I had a fun time with Little Things digital kit from Ali Edwards. When we get our digital files, it's a must for me to go through them one by one. Yes. I open each and every file to make sure I miss nothing. I especially like to see if I can use any of the journal cards for my layout. 

The moment I opened the 4x6 triangles card, I squealed. I have a thing for triangles and geometric shapes in general. My daughters know this too because they got me a gorgeous 'rockstar' clip to add to my bangle for Mother's Day :)

I layered 3 copies of the journaling cards, taking care to leave a little gap between each group of triangles for the 'little stuff' digital stamp, onto my 8.5 x 11 canvas without resizing them. The size is perfect as is. This works because my background and the journal cards are the same color - white. I'm no expert so I have no idea what will happen if you have different colored background or cards. Once the triangles and 'little stuff' digital stamps are in place, I proceed to printing. 

The base of my layout is now ready. I machine stitched all over, added a flair by Feed Your Craft and made photo mat by layering more printed acrylic, gold foiled paper from Pretty Little Studio and cute paperclips here and there. I also splattered some colored mist all over, because I still love splatters to this day. :)

If you're thinking about getting the Little Things Kit, it's still available for a few more days before we switch to the new theme for June (Go) which will be revealed on June 15th. 

xoxo

I'm Happy

I have a new scrap recipe up on the October Afternoon blog today! I know most of you're visiting me from a mobile device so here it is! :)

I'm happy.

I'm loud,

I'm quiet,

I'm insane,

I'm ridiculously funny at times,

I need a brain-mouth filter most of the time.

I don't forgive easily,

I keep a list of 'people I'd like to punch in the face'.

I'm not everyone's cup of tea

and that's okay.

I hate the crowd anyway.

June is always very hectic for me. I think that has to do with the fact that my girls are off school for the whole month! I have a recipe to help you maybe scrap a page or two these busy days of summer. Speaking of which, have you seen Summertime? Oh my! I'm in love with the colors and ever versatile patterns in it!

Yup! That easy! 1-2-3-4! :) Feel free to add your own spin to the recipe. This is just the recipe for the base of the layout.

I made some mistakes while typing out the journaling with my manual typewriter and I left it that way because this is a layout about me, and I'm not perfect and I actually think some of them are quite funny. Would I have corrected them if this is a different layout? I don't know. It depends on my mood I guess. 

I'm going to list down what I used here because I know some of you like it when I point out things I used, one by one.

1 paterned paper - Sunshine from Summertime. 2 pop drops (heart and star), both from Daily Flash Apple Cider collection. 3 stamping - I stamped 'one of a kind' phrase using Daily Flash Inspiration Roller Stamp, three times. 4 stickers - Film roll and True Story stickers are from Daily Flash Snapsots Double Take pack, while that cute yellow sunnies is from Summertime. That black label is from an older October Afternoon collection. 

To add my own spin on the recipe, I used some chipboards (red arrow and grey star), mist splatters, letter stickers (Daily Flash Stop Light Alphas), the word happy in wood and also lots of wonky stitching all over the page.

Please let me know if you need help in identifying stuff used on my layout. I'm available via email and Instagram. I can't wait to see your take on this recipe!

Happy scrapping!

xoxo